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Reuters is reporting the unsurprising news that London, New York City, and San Francisco are seeing dramatic drops in smartphone thefts after the implementation of kill switches on devices became mandatory. The ability to encrypt the contents of these...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will settle with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office to the tune of $100,000 for causing a data breach when a laptop computer was stolen from it campus. This amount is on top of the $500,000 that the hospital...

Alberta, Canada is updating its books so that the breach of medical information is disclosed ASAP. The original legislation had a number of good points although it didn't include a mandate for the use of medical encryption software for laptops used...

According to Consumer Reports , 3.1 million smartphones were stolen in 2013, a significant increase from the 1.6 million smartphones thefts the previous year. Despite the tremendous growth in purloined smart devices , the same report found that most people...

One of the most bizarre data breach stories I've heard over the years has reared its head again. According to thenewstribune.com , disgraced psychologist Dr. Sunil Kakar will have to undergo a mental health evaluation if he wants to resume practice...

BYOD encryption is not just for ensuring smartphone security and tablet protection. Flashdrives are devices that employees bring from home, too, and have been at the center of some remarkable data breaches. And, it doesn't look like they'll be...